Biffy Clyro and Robert Plant nominated for Brit Awards

Out of the 68 nominations for the 2011 Brit Awards, only two-and-a-bit of them are going to rock artists. WTF! indeed.

Former Led Zeppelin frontman Robert plant has been nominated for Best Male Solo Artist, while Biffy Clyro have been nominated for Best British Group. X Factor winner Matt Cardle's cover of Biffy's Many Of Horror, renamed When We Collide, has been nominated for Best British single.

A nominations show will be screened tonight (Friday, January 14) on ITV 2 at 8PM while the awards themselves will take place at London's O2 Arena on February 15.

Tags: Biffy Clyro, Led Zeppelin, Robert Plant

Posted by Dan at 03:52PM | January 14, 2011

It's because the people who vote for the Brits are close minded morons who listen to the same recycled R&B crap that has ruined the industry.

Grats to Biffy and Robert Plant anyway :)

Posted by Liam | January 14, 2011 4:15 PM | Reply to this

the crappy charts are now affecting the Brits.... what a load of shit ! i, for one, am not watching the so called 'music artists' on the show ! what a shame ...

Posted by Sana | January 14, 2011 4:30 PM | Reply to this

i voted for the first time only to vote for Biffy all the other nominations for best band are terrible

Posted by Eve | January 14, 2011 5:08 PM | Reply to this

you not counting Bruce Springsteen as rock then? he was nominated for best international male, won't win but he deserves to

Posted by thomas | January 14, 2011 5:11 PM | Reply to this

It's stupid how someone gets so much recognition for a song they didn't even make.

Posted by Joe | January 14, 2011 5:16 PM | Reply to this

Not that the Brit Awards have ever been credible, but hey

Posted by Greg | January 15, 2011 1:47 PM | Reply to this

Rob zombie made a good point in this weeks Kerrang. Where have all the rock stars gone? Metal is anti-establishment. Brits are establishment...safe..overproduced shite for the masses. Metal is not and never will be for the massess thats why it's ours and thats why we love it. Fuck the brits and thank god actual music making individuals that can play instruments are actually in it...shame on you kerrang for even reporting this...

Posted by mjduffy11 | January 15, 2011 2:18 PM | Reply to this

Posted by mjduffy11 | January 15, 2011 2:19 PM | Reply to this

I thought Iron Maiden were up for one?

Posted by beth | January 15, 2011 7:52 PM | Reply to this

i think biffy's version of many of horror will ALWAYS be better.

Posted by AvaRawbone | January 15, 2011 8:02 PM | Reply to this

Erm, Kings of Leon are nominated and you always play them on your radio station/TV channel... How can you mention Matt Cardle and not these?

Also, radio-wise, you play a lot of the other nominations too. Arcade Fire, Vampire Weekend and Temper Trap to name just a few.

All of this aside, and as well as the bands mentioned, Plan B, Mumford and Sons, Gorillaz, Mark Ronson, Paul Weller, Florence and the Machine, The xx, Bruce Springsteen, Cee Lo Green and of course Eminem are all amazing artists in their own right.

Posted by Parker of course | January 15, 2011 9:47 PM | Reply to this

Awards shows are shit. Live with it.

Look at Kerrang still pretending they appeal to the same audience as Robert Plant. Cute.

Posted by Purple Demon | January 16, 2011 10:38 AM | Reply to this

Iron maiden did win a Brit in 2009 for best british live band (which i believe was one of few awards that was voted for by the public) Dunno if they're up for another.

Posted by Ryan | January 16, 2011 11:34 AM | Reply to this

Brit Awards, what a pile of shite, Tiny Tempah up for 4 awards what the hell is going on?

Thank God Mumford and Sons got best British album, I know their not exactly heavy metal but are actually classed as folk but folk and rock have always had a cross over relationship.

Playlists on radio stations should be done away with, whether it be Kerrang, Radio 1, whoever, who are radio stations or other types of media to tell the public what they should be listening to, its as bad as the X - Factor pushing all the Mariah Carey wanna bes as in horsefaced Leona Lewis.

Radio stations should play all the latest releases, it annoys me for example Kerrrang doesn't play Pink when most of the stuff she has done is rock or rock orientated stuff.

I am a rock fan first and foremost but if you look at the charts black music in the form of urban is starting to dominate the charts whehter we like it or not and that is because thats genuinely what the mainstream public want or urban acts are getting more airplay than rock acts which obviously isn't right.

Posted by Nick Bishop | February 16, 2011 7:54 PM | Reply to this